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Fictional Realities : Uses of Literary Imagination.
This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and unre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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| Colección: | Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FICTIONAL REALITIES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; I. Philosophers on the Imagination: From Plato to Hegel; 1. From Plato to the Middle of the 18th Century; 2. From Kant to Hegel; II. Romantic Themes and Later Developments; 1. Three Issues; 2. The Creative Imagination; 3. The Unifying Imagination; 4. Reality and Unreality; III. Imaginative Reporting: The Minimal Conditions of a Story; 1. Some Views on the Nature of Narrativity; 2. The Three Conditions of a Story; IV. Fictional Discourse and the Theory of Speech Acts.
- 1. The Negative Side: Fictionality Not Based on Fictitious Speech Acts2. The Positive Side: Fictionality Based on Real Speech Acts; V. Fictional Objects; 1. The Problem of Their Existence; 2 The Nature of Their Existence; VI. Realism in Fiction; 1. The Features of Realism as a Typological Notion; 2. Internal Tensions; 3. Realism and Reference; VII. Symbolism and Realism; 1. Introductory Remarks; 2. A Case Study, and Further Examples; VIII. Metaphor, Truth and Poetry; 1. On the Truth of Metaphorical Statements; 2 How to Interpret Poetic Metaphors (and Their Truth).
- IX. Literature in the Mirror of Her Sister Arts1. Literature between Music and the Visual Arts; 2. Some Paradigms; X. On the Value of Literature in Relation to Science; 1. Dimensions of Literary Value; 2. Literary Imagination and Scientific Rationality; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.